Recently, I attended a wedding reception during which a 10-year-old boy, to entertain the adults on the dance floor, started making the point-to-the-sky motion that John Travolta patented in 1977’s ...

When “Saturday Night Fever” — set around a real-life Bay Ridge discothèque — premiered in December 1977, the movie grossed $200 million and sparked the nationwide disco craze. The soundtrack — ...

HOT STUFF: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, by Alice Echols. W.W. Norton & Co., 338 pp., $26.95. Tuning into PBS one recent Saturday evening, I came across a program called "Get Down ...

HOT STUFF: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, by Alice Echols Disco snuck up on America like a covert operation. This wasn't how it had been in the '60s, when shifts in popular music - the ...

WASHINGTON — You’ve probably at some point described something as ”deader than disco,” and it’s true that light-up dance floors and white suits for men are pretty rare these days. But Alice Echols ...

There are five Bad Boys from Boston, but only one Bad Girl. Boston native Donna Summer — who lost her battle with cancer yesterday — was the ’70s flip side to Aerosmith’s rock ’n’ roll. In a decade ...

Disco music ruled the charts from 1973 to 1979 with slick songs that were catchy, mindless, and self-indulgent. But aside from its musical impact, disco was a driving force of social change for gays, ...

Nobody hates disco like they used to, said Melissa Anderson in Newsday. Thirty-one years after Chicago’s Comiskey Park entertained spectators by blowing up a mountain of disco records, there’s hardly ...

The idea that disco music is “easy to snicker at,” as James Gavin writes in his review of Alice Echols’s “Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture” (April 4), is belied by the immense ...